There are many places to get books from that do not require you to pay full price and I can’t see paying so much for a book unless you just have to have it and can’t find it anywhere.
My number one choice of places to find books are at garage sales, yard sales or flea markets. Here you can usually get paperbacks for twenty five cents each and hard covers for one dollar.
Secondly the local libraries have sales once or twice a year and here you will find a large selection of books at reasonable costs.
The third place I would look is used book stores. Here they usually will charge you half to a quarter of the book price depending on how long the book has been in. After reading the books you can take them back and trade two for one and get more books. You can also take books that you have gotten elsewhere and get credit for them using the two for one method. So lets say you go to a sale and buy 20 books first and after you read them you take them to the used book store and trade them in for 10 others, those ten can go back for 5 more after. That is a total of 35 books and depending on where you got the first twenty you have paid twenty dollars at the very most.
One site online called half.com has books at half price which are used but in new condition and some you can get for less than half. I have ordered 5 times from them and the books come directly from the person that has them and all 5 times the books have been in good condition and arrived in a timely manner. You can list your own books for sale here also.
My fifth choice would be Barnes and Noble and I prefer the actual brick and mortar store as they often have sale racks. I was there a couple of weeks ago and got some Anne Rice books in hardcover for a dollar each.
Happy reading everyone.